| Simple... why would the endocrinologist check for that? Much of modern medicine is “I see A with B, so I test for C, maybe D and E. Once your out of stuff you can think to test for modern medicine doesn’t start throwing tests at the wall to see what sticks... it shrugs its shoulders and gives up. Now sometimes this is good (hypochondria + psychosomatic problems) but sometimes this is bad... failure to get a diagnosis due to skipping something they didn’t think of. This is why I always tell people who are unsatisfied with the handling of their medical problems to get a second opinion, a third opinion, as many opinions as it takes. If your doctor says they don’t know why something hurts... ask another one. At some point you should press for referring to a specialist... even if it’s a damn psychiatric specialist because they think it’s in your head... when they check you’re not crazy, that’s one less excuse they have for ignoring your problems. That’s what this person did here. Eventually the only opinions left were the ones they had to dig up on their own. Sometimes this path even involves researching new (or old/forgotten/misunderstood) but at the end of the day this is how hard it is to understand how the body actually works. It’s one of the reasons I’m so thankful for my reasonably good health. There’s a nearly infinite number of ways the body can be broken or damaged, the fact is we only understand a small part of the most common things that go wrong and can fix an even smaller number of the things we do understand. Edit to pre-empt criticism of affordability of this approach: I live in Australia where we have public healthcare so everyone can see a doctor (or twelve) without being driven into bankruptcy. |